#I LOVE AMERICAN FOOD I LOVE AMERICAN FOOD CULTURE

[eosofspades]

i am a nationalist about exactly ONE (1) thing and it's that i fucking love american food. i LOVE american beverage. i love "large" drink being a whole bucket's worth i love milkshake with the thickness of concrete i LOVE going out to a diner and taking my next three meals home with me i love leftovers. i love burger and fries i love fried chicken i love pb&j i love macaroni and cheese i love traditional pancake and scrambled egg breakfast i love apple pie i LOVE ice cream sundae. enough complaining about deep fried carnival food american food is DELICIOUS and im not taking complaints anymore

[watchthekittycatcher]

I, a Latina, was eating miso soup. I looked across the mostly-empty cafeteria, and I saw an Asian girl eating tacos. I was so pleased. It was so striking to me. The scenario felt so inherently American. I like living in the United States. I like how we all decided to share the best parts of our heritage with each other.

[evergreen-endo]

my selfship with takiishi literally would not work without endo and the reasoning is chika’s burger obsession

[cator99]

I always get detained at da border because PROFUNC never ended but basically I'm like if a targeted individual didn't even care

[br1ghtestlight]

i think having breakfast at dennys would fix me but unfortunately like the only dennys in my town was shut down recently due to asbestos violations so i dont think thats gonna happen </3

[lebada]

every time i research smth i consider to be a specifically american food (chicken nuggets, cool whip, american cheese) its origins lie in industry & theyre 'inventions' more than they are... foods. which is kinda crazy & so symbolic of what the US is in my head like all of them r innovations which make the foods resist better at diff temperatures so they can be sold in larger quantities

[starthelostboys]

tlb characters’ favorite meals:

michael: scrambled eggs with bacon and hash browns. michael is definitely a breakfast food fan, and this is his favorite breakfast meal. he prefers to make it himself, so he can cook the bacon the way he likes or put hot sauce on the eggs, but if he’s ever at a breakfast restaurant he’ll always order this there.

star: broccoli and cheddar soup. i don’t think star had a good relationship with her parents at all (in fact i hc that she ran away from home at 18) but her dad used to make this for her on special occasions and she’s never been able to find something that replaces it as her favorite food. every once and a while she’ll feel horribly homesick and get some of the campbell’s canned broccoli and cheddar soup.

david: tuna salad sandwich. he eats this like twice a month and when he does it’s the gross sandwiches that come in vending machines or the refrigerated shelf at gas stations. he truly and genuinely thinks it’s the best and most satisfying meal in the world will usually eat it alongside a can of diet coke.

dwayne: a reuben with salt and vinegar chips. he’s very picky when it comes to this specific thing. the bread on the sandwich can’t be toasted and the potato chips have to be kettle cooked or he isn’t satisfied. he hasn’t eaten this in years because there’s no restaurants in santa carla or the surrounding area that meet his high standards.

marko: bbq burger. specifically the one at a restaurant just outside of santa carla that closed down in the mid 1970s. he mourns the lose every day and has never found a bbq burger that hits quite the same.

paul: lasagna. his all time favorite is the one at this italian place in the town where he grew up, but he’s happy with any and all types of lasgna, including the shitty frozen meal ones.

laddie: spaghettios with hot dogs cut up in it. most of what he eats is fast food or from whatever quick service restaurants are on the boardwalk, so it’s not like he gets a lot of home cooked meals and he sees this as a sometimes treat that star or one of the boys will make for him every once in a while.

sam: grilled chicken tacos. he takes his tacos with cilantro and sour cream only, and as little spice as possible because he can’t handle it at all. he hasn’t eaten this at all since moving to santa carla cause his favorite version of it is at a mexican restaurant that the emersons used to go to semi regularly when they lived in arizona. if he ate any different chicken tacos it would just make him a little homesick and sad he can’t have the ones he likes.

edgar: blueberry pancakes with a side of onion rings. edgar seems like a diner food kind of guy to me (i haven’t forgotten the scene in the thirst where he and zoe get pancakes together), and he’s definitely a creature of habit so this is what he always orders. he refuses to put any sort of syrup on the pancakes and never gets any breakfast sides to go with them, it’s only ever onion rings.

alan: peanut butter and banana sandwich. i think that he and edgar were kind of left to their own devices a lot growing up (and it’s only gotten worse now that they’re teenagers), so they had to make their own meals and peanut butter and banana sandwiches are something they’d eat multiple times a week when they were kids. no matter how often he eats them he never gets tired of them.

lucy: chicken and dumplings. she makes this at least once a month, and every time michael or sam have ever gotten sick she makes it for them. she still uses her mom’s recipe from when she was a kid.

[communistmeme]

I hate you LinkedIn I hate you "work-life balance" I hate you girlboss culture I hate you productivity I hate you 40 hour work week I hate you "how to prevent burnout" classes I hate you I hate you I hate you

[pupkou]

can we come together as a community and be honest with ourselves .. because i’m tired of seeing everything turned into an egg roll. not everything needs to be an egg roll

[moonlarked]

The bad thing about Shannon taking mostly Western inspiration for kotlc is that none of the elves get to experience spring rolls :(

however they do canonically get plants that taste like sweet and sour chicken so I think I would be okay living there (although the texture wouldn’t be right)

[angelsdean]

me looking at that scene from darkside of the moon where dean's sitting at the table and mary's cutting the crusts off his pb&j and seeing "breakfast" jsddfkd there's MILK on the table PLUS a sweet meal that consists of bread and spreads only. breakfast food<3

[neige-leblanche]

in truth, ive been interested in tea since i was eleven years old; i was a bit of a rascal at that age and my chinese teacher decided i was too advanced for whatever the rest of the class was doing so i spent my middle school chinese classes watching educational tv, reading storybooks, and browsing the classroom library, and one of the things i read was a bilingual magazine on chinese tea culture where it said things as specific as how fast you should pour the tea and how full you should pour the cups; ever since then ive been a snob fan; my interest also picked up last year when i had a summer job up the street from a chinese grocery store that had tons of different dried tea ingredients which is when i started making my own blends :D it's a bit of a fatal attraction since my caffeine tolerance is abysmal and black & oolong are my fave types, but i've been fiddling around with herbal & medicinal tea a bit too and one day i'll for sure like. put in an effort to raise my caffeine tolerance without becoming addicted orz

[nicoisgray]

holy shit, i'm studying in St Louis right now and i swear to god i saw this dude at Target wearing his Tarasenko jersey

IM SCREAMING

[marieaqua]

In the effort to push back against diet culture there seems to be a subset of people who have forgotten that allergies and medical conditions exist and have circled back around to being straight up ableist.

Idk man, there’s just something about people constantly shitting on sugar free, gluten free, egg and dairy free food items and recipes that doesn’t sit right with me. Like, yeah, thinking that gluten is poison and no one should eat it is diet culture madness but there’s also many people who have to eat gluten free due to things like celiacs and wheat allergies. Or how having criticisms of vegan diets and subcultures is understandable but making fun of dairy and egg free restaurants just blows back onto people with dairy and egg allergies.

[russenoire]

#wow; i got chills reading this and i thoroughly agree#deku is my hero academia - and what mha stands for has been built up well only to end in a tragedy that could have been avoided if only#there was an actual message of redemption behind. but also consider that while mha is critique to the current society i do think it is a#very realistic representation of how things work. which they don’t; people pretend they do because if they did not they would also end up#demonised as the villains themselves and society has greatly encouraged us not to do so. rebelling against the status quomakes you a threat#bnha#bnha 429#bnha critical

tags from @ignitification

in a conformist society ruled by a single conservative party since the mid 50s... who are the real villains? those who speak out or fight back against inequality and injustice, who rebel against the status quo? or those who say nothing, look away, swallow their frustrations, take the abuse in order to preserve social harmony... and just move on?

i don't like the growing opinion that people are being 'too hard' on deku for his failing to save shigaraki.

i've seen quite a few people complaining that a lot of the bnha-critical crowd are being too mean to deku for getting tomura killed, arguing that it isn't really his fault, and that hes a 16 year old child soldier who's been failed by almost every adult in his life, why should we be putting all of this on his shoulders? hes just a kid after all?

and the truth is, they're right. deku IS a 16 year old boy whos had the fate of the world thrust on his shoulders. but the story itself just plainly refuses to acknowledge this.

the narrative doesn't acknowledge how fucked up having a school that trains literal children how to be combo cop-celebrities is. it only tentatively acknowledges the fact that a universe having combo cop-celebrities is fucked up, and even then the only people who ever point this out are antagonists, who are portrayed and treated in-universe as untrustworthy. the narrative doesn't care how fucked up dekus circumstances are. the narrative treats deku like hes a fucking messiah here to touch the hearts of the evil depressed villains with his magical empathetic heart of gold before they get blown up or just sent to fucking superhell for daring to challenge the status quote.

deku isn't a person. he's barely even a fucking character at this point. he's a plot device, and a mouth piece for the objectively shitty themes bnha is trying to spout. the themes that tell you that if you're mistreated by society and want to do something about it, you're a villain. that disrupting the status quote and refusing to repent to some random teenage boy spouting empty platitudes at you means you deserve to get sent to fucking superhell. the themes that portray people fighting for civil change as mass murdering supervillains. the themes that look the audience dead in the eye and can call deku the greatest hero to ever live.

deku, who barely spared a second thought to lady nagant telling him the truth about the hero commission. who spouts meaningless platitudes about heroism and morality at nagant, and aoyama, and toga and shigaraki, when even the thought that he should question the world around him comes up. who's constantly talked about as this truly kind, empathetic person, but hasn't spared an empathetic thought to literally anyone who is classified as a villain. who listened to every authority figure around him except the ones who asked him to question his worldview. who saw la bravas tears, shigarakis various breakdowns, himikos plead for understanding, chisakis catatonic state, lady nagants truth, and barley batted a fucking eye. deku, who killed tomura shigaraki.

people don't criticize deku for failing shigaraki because they just hate deku. people criticize deku because of what he represents. because hes a mouthpiece for the atrocious morals and themes of this ideologically rotten manga. because any character he had was chopped up to bits in favor of the incomplete husk we have now. people criticize deku because hes the main character of my hero academia. theres nothing more damning then that.